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Culinary Myth #44: Marco Polo brought pasta to Italy from China

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We learned it in 2nd grade, Maybe third. The great Venetian
explorer, Marco Polo, traveled to China and brought back pasta. So
did the Chinese invent pasta? Well, they were making some sort of
millet based pasta for a thousand years. But wheat pasta was made
in many other parts of the world long before Marco Polo's famed
trip. It's a fascinating story and without it, we might still have
pasta but we wouldn't have one of the most beloved kids' pol games
in history... "MARCO..... MARCO..... MARCO....."

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